Celebrity Update

Names & Faces

November 8, 2001

No, Paul Newman isn't losing his mind. Neighbors of the 76-year-old Oscar-winner have wondered after seeing him wandering around mumbling to himself at his Connecticut home, but it turns out he keeps a tiny tape recorder in his pocket. "I believe he could be recording his memoirs for his grandchildren," Newman's spokesman told the New York Daily News.

Paul McCartney confessed that he cried every day for the first six months he went out with Heather Mills because he was still grieving for his wife, Linda. And Mills was very supportive. "But she was like, `No, I understand what you're going through,' " McCartney told the Sun tabloid. "That pretty much cemented our relationship. Otherwise, it wouldn't have worked."

MUSIC MAKERS

Michael Jackson proved Invincible to negative reviews. His first new album in almost six years has debuted at the top of the charts with 366,272 copies sold in its first week, according to figures released Wednesday. But that "king of pop" title may have to go. The number was far fewer than the 1.9 million copies that 'N Sync's Celebrity moved in its debut week last summer.